Things Change Quotes - Page 2

• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

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• All things must change
  To something new, to something strange.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Change, Strange, Something New

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.875, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, All Things, New Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Competition, Next

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.202, Modern Library

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

  Paul Hawken

  Change, Rivers, Environmental

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• If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

  Phil Crosby

  Change, Preparation, World

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• It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Peace, Growth

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• I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

  Henry Rollins

  Blood, Want, Cruelty

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Accepting

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Change, Mind, Painful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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